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We Love Tulum: Where to Stay, What to Eat

Joe and I are in love with Tulum. We just got back from our second trip in a year and we decided to return again for Joe’s 40th in May. This time we went with both of our parents and our three kids (thanks to my mom and dad who…

Juanito’s Town is Cooler than Your Town

In the Yucatán, there is no end to pretty Mexican villages straight out of your Hollywood imagination. There are low-slung rock walls enclosing thatched roofed houses with walls made simply of twiggy tree trunks. There are churches, the stucco faded by the sun. And old men wearing cowboy hats going…

A Quick Trip to Baja Norte

Hi. It’s Joe, not Sara. I’m not smart enough to create an administrative profile for myself here, so I’ve decided to write this using Sara’s. You might have heard, we are opening a new Tacolicious. And while I’m beaming with excitement now, at  the time I wrote these notes, I…

Rick Bayless Talks Mexican vs. Mexican

On SF Gate’s Inside Scoop today, the honorable Paolo Lucchesi sat down with the venerable Rick Bayless to talk shop. After he got done waxing on about his good eating in SF (none of it Mexican), he got down to business. A man with a sharp mind, Bayless always has…

August is For the Love of 7 Leguas

Mike Barrows, our general manager, recently got back from a trip to the Tequila region of Mexico. It was there that he learned something I’ve always found to be true: Everything tastes better when you learn to love the people that make it. Mike came to us initially as our…